Over the holidays, my family played the board game Settlers of Catan. Several times. In this game, you trade resources–sheep and wood and bricks and wheat and rocks–to build roads and settlements and cities. The gameboard is set up so that there are fewer...

There are 3 things I talk to would-be course builders about that have them worried and stalled BEFORE they've even created their course. Let me tell you why you should skip these concerns and move on to the real work. Worry #1: which online classroom platform should I...

Done-for-you tools give your students adaptable and even swipe-worthy content that they can use to execute on the tasks they're learning in your course with greater ease than if they started from scratch. Here are several examples of done-for-you tools to get you...

You've got different course delivery tools and approaches available for online teaching than you do for live classroom teaching. That means you've got opportunities to do things in new ways. Your best teaching will happen when you marry the opportunities that tech...

A “signature system” puts your expertise and best processes into a roadmap that your students can use to get to their goal. I know that sounds like . . . an online course. And it could be an online course. Or even a series of online courses. The thing is to actually...

It's a Course Builder's Diary episode. That means a behind the scenes look at work I'm doing on my two teaching businesses: Teach What You Do and Get It Scrapped. In this session I share work and processes for: marketing an upcoming 5-day event, creating a planner to...